Project 5 Blog

The most challenging aspect of this project was tying math into real life problems, that were not just simple story problems, but problems that would relate to the students. The most rewarding part of this project was seeing the final project with all the transitions and animations. It was overall a good project that had alot of information that could be a great guideline for teaching. The biggest reason to use powerpoints in the classroom is to use it as a guideline for the lesson plan. It could also be used by students since most students have an understanding of powerpoints in this day and age. I would show the teacher the 7 tips, those are very vital when it comes to powerpoints. Making sure you don't put too much information and use the powerpoint as an outline. Students could use this powerpoint to look back at the examples, they could use this powerpoint to help tutor another student in the future, they could use this to simply learn on their own.

Project 4 Blog

The most challenging aspect of this project was figuring out what I was going to do. It was very difficult finding the academic standard that I wanted to use as well as how to make that work with pictures and music. Quite frankly I did not like this project from a mathematics standpoint. Maybe it is just me and I lacked the creativity to make something useful and special with this project but overall it was tough. The most rewarding part for me was when I was able to make the sound track that I used fade out right in time with the end of the pictures. I thought that was really cool since you see that happen in movies, videos, commercials, and so on, but being able to do that was really cool.

These last two points are very difficult because I found this project to not be very useful for math. I could see myself using iMovie to do things for personal use, or school subjects such as history where images of historical value could be shown, or a time period of books our authors for english but for math I did not like it very much. I really do not know how iMovie would help from a picture standpoint, but if students were able to use its video features and take a video of a statistical project they are doing it could be useful for a new way of learning.

Chapter 8 Focus Question #3

I think that teachers can use blogs in classrooms to provide a tool for discussion all the time. A student can post a question to a teachers blog or can comment on a students blog proving their opinions, corrections, statements, and discussions. Due to these features providing students to make comments on assignments or tests as a form of homework, it allows teachers to see the time the assignment is posted and the time students reply on the blogs. A blog allows for more work to be done outside of class which can be beneficial to students as a way of giving them homework without it feeling like homework as these blogs do to me since it is not on paper anymore.